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In recent years, Manitoba dropped to last among the provinces in the number of family physicians per capita. Read more.

Creating health-care teams, increasing Canadian medical school enrolment, and fast-tracking licensure of foreign medical graduates will eventually mitigate the current crisis .

Across Canada, physicians and nurses are retiring prematurely; emergency departments are forced to close for days at a time.

Across Canada, physicians and nurses are retiring prematurely; emergency departments are forced to close for days at a time.

“What the elders see while sitting the young ones standing on their toes won’t see.” – African proverb

The provincial government needs to take “swift, decisive action” to address the “dysfunction” of Alberta Health Services. “That also means repairing our relationship with nurses and doctors, it means replacing managers with frontline staff, it means attracting additional health professionals from around the world.” These were the words of Danielle Smith in her victory speech on Thursday, October 6. How can she reform the system without causing chaos?